Studies in Symbolic Interaction

by Norman K. Denzin

Overview

Part I of Volume 34 of "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" contains 12 outstanding contributions by leading activist scholars on Commodity Racism, Chief Illiniwek, and Native American Sport Mascots. Part II, New Interpretative Works, contain seven performance narratives - black womanhood, masculinity, whiteness, and gender, sexual violation, old civilization and democratic citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849509602
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	04/09/2010
Series:	Studies in Symbolic Interaction , #34
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters, has founded or led several learned organizations and has founded or served as editor for five scholarly journals.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors. Thinking against/after chief Illiniwek. Explaining the NCAA Decision, August 9, 2005. Mourning the mascot's demise: On prehistoric origins and modern aftermath. “Leutwiler's Indian”: Creating the “Chief” tradition at the university of Illinois. Why the NCAA was right. Inventing tradition: The garippo report and the paraphernalia of jurisprudence. Death and resurrection of chief illiniwek (1926–2007). Staging an intervention in a virtual dystopia: The online fallout of the race, power and privilege forum and the removal of “Chief Illiniwek”. The university of chief illiniwek? Consuming “indianness” in the shadows of memorial stadium. (Not) Writing about the chief. On deaf ears: an activist's comments to the university's trustees. “Born to be wild” or a “tale of two theories”: A performance of black womanhood in the United States. Romance, nostalgia, and danger: Disposing of the white male guide. “And her death filled her with great plentitude”: Whiteness, erasure, and racialized schooling. Stepping out, speaking up: Resisting sexual violence through narratives. The chargeling. Playing with oil: Putting performativity at the center of oil civilization. Lifelong education and democratic citizenship. Studies in symbolic interaction. Studies in symbolic interaction. Copyright page.

Editorial Reviews

This fifty-third volume of Studies in Symbolic Interaction is a dense but rewarding collection of essays for researchers and doctoral students seeking for new, original theoretical avenues related to social interactions, emotions, and relationships.

Yves Laberge